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You touch me in colors unseen by the naked eye As I lay naked upon your thighs Goosebumps trailed across me like the northern lights You allow each fingertip to trace me Delicately Poetry in Braille The way you read me intimately Memorizing every curve and corner Unlocking every hidden door In puzzles and labyrinths I've let no one else explore Trails of your kisses tiptoe down my neck Where our sweat collects From every ripple which connects Between us in stars and flecks Lucid constellations Rapid inhalations Our bodies expand and contract Upon every subtle contact of flesh I gasp for this crescendo to climax Tasted only between panting breaths Between two folded legs Wrapped around you in prayer Fingers laced into my thighs I inhale and sigh Don't stop, right there I grab tightly to tufts of hair Steering you to where I know you're gonna get that shit Half your face is drenched wet As you lick up every drop like the last supper So stubborn You don't stop til I jump b

* Discovering Darko * 01 Moonlight Fae✅ 02 Honeysuckle✅ 03 20-Something Still✅ 04 Shrinking✅ 05 Song for the Ages✅ * Lessons in Love * 06 Perennial✅ 07 What I Really Really Want✅ 08 Red Flags✅ 09 Fuck You✅ 10 Reflected✅ 11 Diamond Cut✅ * Grown & Grounded * 12 Daddy Issues✅ 13 Arthur Reese✅ * Bonus Triptych: To the Scene * 14 Restin' Piece 15 Used 16 React

Tell me what's your worth Is it weighed out in the contents of your purse Every magnetized strip Or computer chip Wave pay Cash tips Linked to this intricate Web of consciousness Keeping tabs on us Through bank statements And the payroll we collect Measured down to the nanosec Of hours spent Dedicated to the man who signs your check Just to see that number next To your name climb the slightest bit

Now I find myself quarantined, confined Truth is, I've been a prisoner in my mind for years In the corners of my consciousness are small padded rooms Where I allow myself to be consumed by my fears In the voices of others I claim to be my own Thirty years I've aged, but so few of them I've grown Feeding into fears of disapproval and failure Entertaining distractions and delusions of grandeur Still I've continued to punish myself For these lowercase l's Instead of addressing my creation of this hell In the form of denied truth Fear Fear Fear Stop. Do not let this fear become you Paralytic: Do not halt your feet from forward-moving progress Parasitic: Self-invest your precious energy before it can be drained by someone else Copacetic: Accept the grand design, relinquish your need for control Poetic: See thru the scope that allows the beauty of life to unfold I'm not accustomed to the quiet Her silence whispers secrets in the night Pull the covers from me slowly Ex

I could sit alone with that one in an empty room filled with nothing but our moonlight covered conversations.